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		sasoon on Nov 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse ... Why not just use localStorage instead of cookies?

wooptoo on Nov 11, 2012 [–]

Because localstorage may pop a message window on some browsers.

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